Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for Your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
O You hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night? Why should You be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save?

Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by Your name; do not leave us.

Thus says the Lord concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”

Jeremiah 14:7-10

I’m reading in the book of Jeremiah right now. I taught through this book a couple of years ago. The connection of the state of Israel and the current state of our nation is easily seen when you read the words of this prophet. The Lord is treated like a stranger in this land. Even those who sit in a church on a weekly basis do not know Him, because they choose to listen to the words of finite men and women instead of our Infinite God.

The distance of our wanderings is clearly seen when we examine our nation in the light of the Word of God. We are a people that loves to go our own way and play our own God, until disaster strikes and then we run to the God we turned our back to and beg Him to deliver. He does so, just to watch us prance off even further into the darkness the next time. “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet…”

Look where our nation was as a whole when 9/11 happened and recall how we appeared to return and now look how far we are from that day… How long will the Lord let it go?

I think many of us who truly love the Lord and are seeking to serve Him and honor Him might arrogantly expect Him to protect our entire nation just to keep us safe. Perhaps that has been the false hope we have been clinging to just as Jeremiah clung to it. However, there will come a day when the Lord says enough is enough. He will only strive with us so long. His compassions do not fail and His love is never ending, but if we reject His compassion and His love we are left with the consequences of that rejection.

I am not going to pretend I have a clue what this election is going to do with the course of our nation. I am quite tired of reading blogs and posts about all the speculation and predictions surrounding the outcome. Each side predicts loom and gloom concerning the other. Each side is assured that we are going straight to hell if we vote for the other.

I am not going to claim which candidate has the most integrity and least amount of dispicability, because one thing I have learned in my short life here on this earth is that if I am not in the house and in the room and in the heart of someone I really cannot claim to have a clue. I am not close enough to any of our candidates to judge their fruit as to whether or not which one actually loves Jesus for real.

I know one’s life has been on public display forever and the others has been attempted to be carefully guarded forever. I know one has never cared what was exposed about them before and the other has been striving for this position for years and therefore would be trying to keep anything threatening of character hidden. I know that I only get to know what the media chooses to tell me and that being according to the perspective they most want me to see it.

Therefore, all I know for sure is that this election season has been very successful in creating an even greater division within the body of Christ.  One Christian attacking another because of which blog post they chose to believe and post. I just wish we fought this passionately hard for the lost and hurting and dying. I just wish we loved out as much as we lashed out. I wish we, as the body Christ, would remember that we are Christians before we are Americans. Our citizenship is in heaven not on this earth.

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done…

 I just know that one day my Jesus will come again. I know that one day someone of integrity and righteousness will rule this nation and all nations… I’m going to stick with campaigning for Him.